Hermann Schreiber (journalist)

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Hermann Schreiber (born August 9, 1929 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † April 12, 2020 ) was a German journalist , author and presenter .

Life

His father was the district director of an insurance company in Ludwigshafen. After graduating from Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart , he completed training as a journalist at the State Gazette for Württemberg-Baden . In 1952 he got his first job as editor and reporter at the Stuttgarter Zeitung , where he last worked as a special correspondent.

In 1964 he went to the news magazine Der Spiegel as a reporter , where on July 1, 1967, he became “managing Spiegel editor”. He was honored with the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1966 for his Spiegel report in 1966 entitled “I will try to forget” about US soldiers in the Vietnam War .

In 1979 he moved to Gruner + Jahr , the GEO magazine , where he was chief reporter until 1987. He then held the position of GEO editor-in-chief until 1992.

During his journalistic career, Schreiber published numerous books on political and social topics, including the fall of the Chancellor , The Crisis in the Middle of Life and biographies of u. a. Willy Brandt , Gustav Heinemann , Philip Rosenthal and Henri Nannen . The latter also appointed Schreiber to the jury of the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1977 .

Between 1979 and 1993 Schreiber was a regular presenter on the NDR Talk Show . In the films Drei Schwestern made in Germany (2006) and The Woman Who Disappeared in the Forest (2009) by Oliver Storz , he took on a role as an actor.

Private

In his first marriage he was married to the book author Marion Schreiber-Kellermann (* 1920) since 1951. He spent his retirement together with his wife Jutta Temme in Munkmarsch on Sylt ; his primary residence was in Hamburg .

Works (selection)

  • 1969 Gustav Heinemann, Federal President. Fischer library, Frankfurt / Main.
  • 1970 Willy Brandt. ECON, Düsseldorf.
  • 1978 Midlife crisis. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1978, ISBN 3-404-00887-1 .
  • 1979 Federal Chancellery: Are you in power? In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979, 12, ISSN  0342-8311 , pp. 36-60 (informative experience report).
  • 1980 Boeing works: Scenes from 2001. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980, 5, ISSN  0342-8311 , pp. 104-124 (informative experience report).
  • 1980 Anyone who no longer researches has a comfortable life. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980, 5, ISSN  0342-8311 , pp. 154, 155 (forum: experts from science, politics and business discuss German research).
  • 1980 The Rosenthal story. ECON, Düsseldorf.
  • 1986 Bayreuth workshop. Knaus, Munich.
  • 1991 Islam. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg.
  • 1996 The happy ending. Against the abolition of death. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg, ISBN 3-498-06301-4 .
  • 1999 Henri Nannen. C. Bertelsmann, Munich, ISBN 978-3-570-00196-7 (2001 also as a paperback from Goldmann-Verlag with ISBN 978-3-442-15132-5 ).
  • 2005 overthrow of chancellor. Why Willy Brandt resigned. Ullstein, Berlin, ISBN 3-548-36726-7 .
  • 2009 A capitalist with a sense of community. Ed. Körber Foundation, Hamburg
  • 2010 Sylt. An aerial trip. Photos by Michael Zapf. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8319-0412-9 .
  • 2011 Silent corners on Sylt. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8319-0428-0

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary on hanns-joachim-friedrichs.de, accessed on April 17, 2020
  2. ↑ dpa report on t-online, April 14, 2020
  3. ↑ PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION: HERMANN SCHREIBER . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1967, p. 110 ( online - 24 July 1967 ).
  4. ↑ I'll try to forget , DER SPIEGEL 44/1966 of October 24, 1966
  5. ↑ xvc / dpa: "Geo" editor-in-chief and NDR moderator: Hermann Schreiber is dead. In: Spiegel Online . April 14, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  6. ^ Society. What Crispy , DER SPIEGEL 44/1978 of 30 October 1978
  7. ↑ My home stretch is in the Jückersmarsch , shz.de from August 27, 2011
  8. ↑ A bank on the watt and other quiet corners , shz.de of April 9, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and moderator
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2020